barking

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)kɪŋ

From Middle English berkyng, berkande, equivalent to bark +‎ -ing.

barking

1. present participle of bark

• barking dogs seldom bite

barking (comparative more barking, superlative most barking)

1. Who or that barks or bark.

   a barking dog

2. (British slang) Clipping of barking mad.

   He's going to run the marathon in this hot weather dressed as Donald Duck – he must be barking!

From Middle English berkyng, berking, berkynge, equivalent to bark +‎ -ing.

barking (plural barkings)

1. The action of the verb to bark.
   • 1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time

     Old pigtailed seamen would tell of horseshoes found in the meat casks; of curious barkings and neighings heard in the slaughter-houses; and of negroes who disappeared near the victualling yards, to be seen no more.

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